On 09/12/2011 08:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On mån, 2011-09-12 at 05:26 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 09/11/2011 11:43 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Second, I'd like to be able to set a minimum number of lines below which the
>>>> pager would not be used, something like:
>>>>
>>>> \pset pagerminlines 200
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>> Gee, why do I feel like we have something like this already?
>> We do? We control columns, but not lines AFAIK.
> We check the lines and columns in the terminal window. Oddly enough,
> that code is in two separate places, so I don't know if they have
> consistent effects.
>
>
Yes, but what I want is to be able to control it. So even if my terminal
is 50 lines long I want to be able to say "Don't use the pager unless
there are 200 or more lines."
cheers
andrew